The RealPlayer utility has several vulnerabilities patched with the latest security releases from RealNetworks.

Similar to an offering for Windows XP, a new tool will better allow administrators time to plan upgrades.

Okay I admit it. Like a bunch of other media figures who didn’t do enough homework on a story, I bought it hook, line, and sinker. On May 27, 2005, I posted a story about Forget-Me-Not GPS-enabled panties, only to find out later that I was utterly hornswaggled.

The now-familiar second Tuesday of the month arrival of Microsoft security bulletins brought ten new arrivals to enterprises and individuals.

Microsoft has 10 new security bulletins lined up for release next week. The June 14th release promises a number of other updates. The will air a webcast on Wednesday to discuss the details of the updates.

Google is undergoing some of the most sweeping changes in its short, seven year history.

They say that today is the first day of the rest of your life. That makes everyday an important one though as we all know, some days are much more important than others. Today is one of those days.

Microsoft today at TechEd finally took the wraps off Microsoft Update, the new one-stop-shop for updates to everything Microsoft makes. The new system works with Windows’ existing automatic update system, so its all good.

As indicated in earlier reports, Google is in the midst of updating their search index. This particular update is being referred to as “Bourbon”. Perhaps it’s named this because of the amount of potential stress that index updates can cause.

Google today unveiled Sitemaps, a program where you can notify Google of any updates to your website so that it crawls your site immediately. Essentially, its like RSS for entire websites, with webmasters creating an XML file that indicates recently changed or new pages that Google subscribes to.

Google’s most recent update is taking longer than usual to complete. As reported here two weeks ago, Google is updating its algorithm and this update is causing volatility in the search engine results under various keywords and keyword phrases.

Reports are surfacing concerning a major update occurring at Yahoo’s search engine. However, some feel this may be just a run-up to the real thing.

It’s that time again ladies and gentlemen: time for site owners to visit various datacenters; hoping to find favorable answers concerning the search performance of their web site… in other words, there’s another Google update taking place.

Light sweet crude for the June contract came up short this today settling below $47 and $46.92 a barrel. The prices continued to drop after yesterday’s report from the U.S. Dept of Energy saying U.S. inventories continued to climb for 13 of the last 14 weeks.

While it’s true that Google’s search engine updates do usually garner the most attention, the other search engines do update their product as well.

As we go through existence, we find there are great questions in life: What is life’s meaning? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? And finally, just how big is the Internet? A recent study attempted to put some of the Internet question into perspective and they discuss how much is covered by the big search engines.

A large backlink update is underway at the datacenters used by Google Search. As per usual, when big updates occur in Google or any other search engine, the effects are normally seen in the search results.

For those of you who watch such things – it seems that Google has just started a backlink update.

Improvements touted by Microsoft include better identity and access management, and more UNIX interoperability.

A glitch in the DNS records for the well-known search engine caused browser lookups to fail for a period of time.

Apple put out their latest security update (2005-005) on Tuesday. It has a number of fixes for OS X v10.3.9 and the Server v10.3.9. This patch provides a number of fixes for several systems including the following: